Jimmy Wales

I mean, maybe it does now because keyboard standards have, you know, drifted over time and becomes useful to have a certain character.

I mean, it's the same thing.

Like, there's not really a W character in Italian.

And it wasn't on keyboards, or I think it is now.

But in general, W is not a letter in Italian language.

But it appears in enough international words that it's crept into Italian, so.

The discussion of square brackets in German.

What is an encyclopedia?

So the way I would put it is an encyclopedia, what our goal is, is the sum of all human knowledge, but sum meaning summary.

So, and this was an early debate.

I mean, somebody started uploading the full text of Hamlet, for example.

And we said, hmm, wait, hold on a second.

That's not an encyclopedia article, but why not?

So, hence was born Wikisource, which is where you put original text and things like that out of copyright text.

Because they said, no, an encyclopedia article about Hamlet, that's a perfectly valid thing.

But the actual text of the play is not an encyclopedia article.

So most of it's fairly obvious.

But there are some interesting quirks and differences.

So, for example, as I understand it, in French language encyclopedias, traditionally –

it would be quite common to have recipes, which in English language, that would be unusual.